Busoni: Doktor Faust – review

Fischer-Dieskau/Lewis/Wallace/Harper/Cameron/London PO and Choir(LPO)When Ferruccio Busoni died in 1924, he left his most ambitious opera unfinished. Doktor Faust received its first performance the following year, in a completion by the composer's pupil Philipp Jarnach, and that is the form in which it received its British premiere, too, conducted by Adrian Boult in 1937. Twenty-two years later, Boult returned to it for a performance recorded by the BBC. This "concert version", apparently prepar...

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